Bachelor/Master student in natural sciences, engineering or computer science for an internship or thesis (f/m/x)

Solar tower power plants offer a highly promising avenue for leveraging the energy of the Sun. They consist of several hundred to several thousand mirrors, so-called heliostats, which focus solar radiation onto a receiver tower. In order to guarantee efficient operation and to characterize the power plant performance, it is important to determine the incoming flux density distribution on the receiver surface.

DLR has developed a new innovative technique to experimentally measure such flux density distributions together with a project partner. Within your internship or thesis, you can contribute to this interesting topic and improve the measurement technique by performing ray tracing simulations of entire solar power plants. Based on your simulations in the dedicated software framework STRAL, you will investigate the impact of different sources of uncertainty (like heliostat misalignments, reflective properties, mirror shape deviations) on the measurement procedure.

You will perform the following tasks:

Does the topic sound appealing to you and you want to live and work in the sunny region of Almería in southern Spain in the capital city by the sea? Then join our creative, diverse and international team. An experienced colleague will closely work together with you and support you throughout the entire work. The project can be aligned with the responsible professor of your university.